What is Super Training Your Dog?

If you’re looking to have  a happy, healthy and well adjusted dog  that is obedient and well behaved then here is a resource that will assist you.

The foundation of super training your dog  is to raise and train the dog(s) in your life with kindness, love and firmness, avoiding violent tactics that are cruel and totally outdated

Super training your dog is a style of effective training that focuses on the owner of the dog as much, if not more, than the dog itself. The thinking behind this is that dogs follow their instintive “alpha male” impulses and therefore, whatever authority that alpha male has will be the extent of the effectiveness of the training.

This is very different from the old world training of the past when owners were all about training the dogs and the missing link in the process was the actual owner. Why is it that some dog owners have no issues training their dogs and yet others do? Why, if they do the same training, does their dog turn out to be the rebel without a clue? Well, maybe a shift in thinking will lift the blame off the poor dog and focus a little more on the ‘owner without a clue”. And it’s not the owners fault – it is the training method that is to blame.

If you have ever taken your pet to dog instruction classes with other dog owners in the group, you have probably noticed that some owners have a real challenge with the training and have a dog that just will not listen. Probably you have found yourself critiquing silently, instinctively knowing what they are most likely doing wrong. You may notice that their voice pitch is very non commanding or not confident. Perhaps their stride is erratic or their demeanor is a little panicked and confused. And therein lies the secret to super training your dog . It is about how you connect with your dog that will determine just how well you can train it.

What You Can Achieve with Super Training Your Dog

• A dog that is obedient and outgoing
• A relationship with your dog that is based on mutual love and affection, trust and communication
• To understand why your dog does what it does and how to control your dog in any situation with total confidence
• To think like the dog thinks and therefore get results
• To train with love and NEVER physically discipline your dog

The Art Of Super Training Your Dog

Here’s the real secret – How well your dog responds to your commands and you as the owner is directly correlated with your ability to engage the dog. The use of voice communicates our attitude or mood at any given moment. Your voice needs to be commanding and clearly convey the emotion you are feeling at the time – pride and encouragement, loving and affectionate or angry and annoyed. Humans react the same way to tones and many people do resort to voice change when communicating with their dog. You hear the baby talk voice for affection, the shout for annoyance and the syrupy praise tones we all seem apt to adopt. It’s natural and it is a clear communication. However, sometimes we can easily mix up those tones which leaves the dog confused – thinking it’s playtime when in fact it is instruction time or feeling intimidated when in fact we have no annoyance toward the dog but might just be feeling irritated that the car tire is flat or our spouse is late. Dogs are very sensitive to our moods and surely you have noticed how they come to you when you’re upset or depressed. They pick up on many more signals than humans do and this sensitivity can make or break super training your dog.

Super training your Dog comes with Passive Obedience

Focus is the number one priority in any dog training. You want the dog to be focused on you and to respond to your voice tone signals. When the dog is naughty you let him or her know with a certain tone they recognise instantly as a command to stop. You sweeten your tone when the dog does something right and you praise. This is known as passive obedience and goes a long way to the whole success of super training your dog. You consistently do this with specific tones and develop a language of sound with the dog. When you conduct active obedience you are working with the dog using specific commands which are obviously also sounds but these are clothed in tones and motions and are specific. Sit! is a specific command and usually accompanied by a physical signal although you want to get to the point of just a verbal command. However, with passive training you will be using a series of words or sounds that project a tone.

If your dog does not focus on you, then you will probably not be able to engage your dog and get him to be calm or obey commands.You mostly want to focus on getting the dog to listen to your voice by practicing first with little things like stop sniffing, playing, whatever with nothing more than a, “Hey, Hey,” or clearing your throat. Some people have a special unique sound they use for each of their dogs. You start with little things, then work up to the big things. This is what we call Passive Obedience versus Active Obedience which is working on obedience commands. You don’t need to train your dog to do everything but to simply just be obedient, the rest follows. Either dogs are obedient or they are not.

Super Training Your Dog With Variety

We would like to believe that our dogs speak our language fluently and it is a nice human thing to think but they do not speak human – just like we do not speak dog. You understand and communicate to each other with sounds and tone. Monotone owners may be the ones with the problems as the lack of variance in their pitch and tone makes for one language and not specific and identifiable languages for the dog to understand.

Your voice is your ultimate communication tool – it is essential that it conveys intent and emotion.

Communicating with your canine is not rocket science.

It’s about using a variety of tones that are easily identifiable and mean a certain thing to your pet.

This is the fundamental core of super training your dog.